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UCSF and the School of Dentistry have many resources to help you further your research and advance your teaching skills, including faculty presentations, mentorship and listings of funding opportunities.

Advancing Your Career at UCSF

Dean's Development Fund

Dean's Faculty Development Funds provide support for attending or presenting to meetings of national or regional professional societies.

Faculty Teaching Resources

CTSI Mentor Training Program (MTP)

Applications are now being accepted for the CTSI Mentor Training Program (MTP), a comprehensive program with both online and in-person components, designed to train faculty to be effective mentors. The MTP creates an integrated environment for mentors and mentors-in-training, encouraging creative and innovative networking, discussing a range of mentoring challenges and a myriad of solutions, developing a toolbox of strategies, and using discussions and collective experiences to build a community of mentoring excellence. In addition to research faculty, many residency and fellowship directors and others who run training programs have found the MTP to be very useful. All are strongly encouraged to apply.

The next MTP course will be offered in Spring 2018. Application deadline is March 1, 2018.

Program Announcements from NIH

Additional Opportunities for Faculty Development

UCSF

Teaching Scholars Program: An intensive seminar series, along with mentored projects, culminates in a presentation of published scholarly article focused on UCSF curriculum development or educational research.

CTSI Summer Clinical Research Workshop: Four courses designed to train emerging scientists in the skills necessary to create a sound clinical research protocol, collect and manage clinical research data and explore research data.

ADEA/AAL Institute for Teaching and Learning: A training program from the ADEA and the Academy for Academic Leadership for full- and part-time health professions educators and private practitioners transitioning to academic careers.

Awards

UCSF

Harold S. Luft Award for Mentoring: Given to a senior UCSF faculty member who inspire and stimulate their mentees to do their best work, expand mentees' ways of thinking by fostering an appreciation of different points of view, develop career opportunities for mentees, create communities of learners and maintain lifelong contact with mentees, and serve as a role model in leadership, professionalism, integrity and life balance.

American Association for Dental Research/International Association for Dental Research (AADR/IADR)

IADR Distinguished Service Award: Presented to a member of IADR for outstanding instances of service to the organization or for distinguished service over a period of time.

American Dental Education Association (ADEA)

ADEA/ADEAGies Foundation Education Fellowship: A two to three-month fellowship at the ADEA office in Washington, DC, to work with ADEA staff on such issues as faculty recruitment, development and retention, leadership development, accreditation and licensure and others.

California Dental Association (CDA)

CDA Foundation Humanitarian Award: Recognizes California dentists who have distinguished themselves through a lifetime of outstanding, unselfish leadership and contributions to fellow humans in the field of dentistry.